1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, "I love you", mean it.
5. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams because without dreams, we don't have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
16. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
17. Remember the three R's: Respect yourself; Respect others; Responsibility for all of your actions.
18. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
19. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
21. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
22. Spend some time alone.
23. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
24. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
25. Read more books and watch less TV.
26. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
27. Trust in God but lock your car.
28. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
29. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
30. Read between the lines.
31. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
32. Be gentle with the earth.
33. Pray. There's immeasurable power in it.
34. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
35. Mind your own business.
36. Don't trust a man/woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss.
37. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
38. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
39. Remember that NOT getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
40. Learn the rules, then break some.
41. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
42. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
43. Remember that your character is your destiny.
44. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
...about making an exercise video for people my age and calling it "Pumping Tin".
...that in a few years going braless will pull all of the wrinkles out of my face.
...about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older then it dawned on me that maybe they're just cramming for their finals!
...how, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, I just kinda like the look of it."
...how employment application forms always ask who they should notify in case of an emergency. How about we write ... A Good Doctor.
...Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do - write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?
...What's so great about being rich? I mean, look at Henry Ford...all those millions and he never even owned a Cadillac!
...I wonder if Adam ever said to Eve, "Watch it! There are plenty more ribs where you came from."
* Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
* To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
* Anger is only one letter short of danger.
* Great minds discuss ideas;
..Average minds discuss events;
..Small minds discuss people.
* He who loses money, loses much;
..He who loses a friend, loses more;
..He who loses heart, loses all.
* Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
..But beautiful old people are works of art.
* Learn from the mistakes of others.
..You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
* The tongue weighs practically nothing
..Yet so few people can hold it.
